Biotechnology is a phenomenal course where the students, working in research teams, work through a sequence of skills commonly used in biotech labs all over the county.
Students will mix their own solutions and buffers by performing serial dilutions. Sterile technique will be a large focus as well. They will proceed on with genetic transformation, horizontal and vertical electrophoresis, polymerase chain reactions and protein purification. This year students will partner with Coastal Marine Biolabs. to collect Rockfish DNA samples. Students will isolate, amplify and sequence the DNA. This lab sequence will end with students posting the DNA sequence as a DNA fingerprint on the Barcode of Life Database (BOLD). Students will gain tremendous lab skills that are usually only taught at the college level.
